Sentences with phrase «for plant medicine»

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What if someone told you that the Cannabis Sativa L plant could feed, clothe, shelter, and provide medicine and energy for our society?

Long known for potent healing qualities, essential oils from native plants were some of the first medicine.

Understanding evolution has helped in bringing about new plants for better farming and new medicines and understanding disease.

It's one for the intuitives / healers / spiritual / plant medicine people.

Indian Ayurvedic medicine calls for the entire chile plant — leaves, pods, stem, branches, and roots — to be boiled in milk and applied to swellings and tumors on the skin.

As I combed dozens and dozens of books on medicinal plants and folk medicine searching for chile pepper citations, one of the most frequent references we found were those linking chile peppers to the treatment of skin problems of all kinds.

There is a heritage and culture associated with Tequila and Mezcal that dates back well over a thousand years, when the agave plant — also known as the maguey — was utilized by Mexico's native peoples for virtually everything: from food and drink to sugar, shoes, soap, building supplies, and even medicine.

Learn about the different roles of men and woman, which plants and animals they relied upon for food, medicine and tools, and generally what life was like in an Ohlone village.

The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, a group that promotes a plant - based diet, cited the Boston study in filing a petition in July asking that the USDA eliminate dairy requirements from the school lunch program.

This plant has been used as a medicine for hundreds of years, and has been shown to increase milk supply.

Our mission is to provide safe, herbal alternatives for pregnant, postpartum and breastfeeding women, and babies of all ages, and to help educate people about traditional plant medicine and safe personal care.

An expert in the benefits of plant medicine, Melinda began formulating organic herbal remedies for friends in her Oregon kitchen many years ago.

The Centre for Scientific Research into Plant Medicine is an agency of the Ministry of Health that was set up in the 1970s for both R&D and as a practical resource (product production & distribution / provision) primarily in areas of biotechnology related to medicinal plants.

Erik Williams, director of government and community affairs for Gaia Plant - Based Medicine, a leading purveyor of medical marijuana in Colorado, said «it's not realistic to expect interstate transportation of marijuana medicine,» noting that federal drug laws bar its movement across statMedicine, a leading purveyor of medical marijuana in Colorado, said «it's not realistic to expect interstate transportation of marijuana medicine,» noting that federal drug laws bar its movement across statmedicine,» noting that federal drug laws bar its movement across state lines.

One of these was withaferin A, a compound derived from a plant known as Indian ginseng that has been used in Ayurvedic medicine for centuries to treat a range of diseases, including epilepsy.

We no longer have the beautiful nature or fertile land that could cultivate everything, that grows herbs and medicinal plants to extract drugs for medicines.

Communities in these areas rely heavily on forest resources, such as firewood, thatch for roofs, and plants for food and medicine.

Currently, Mumbengegwi is working with a group at Rutgers University in New Jersey to evaluate indigenous plants with potential for commercialization as food, medicine, or dietary supplements.

In the past, researchers have examined herbal medicines by running assays for toxic compounds and using DNA tests to determine whether a specific plant or animal is present.

Phyllis Coley and husband Tom Kursar, plant ecologists at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, reasoned that if young plants have stronger chemical defenses, they might also be a good place to look for potential medicines.

Kaileh's research has confirmed the medicinal properties — anti-inflammatory and anti-cancer — of this plant species, which has been used as herbal medicine in the Middle East, as well as other countries like India, for decades.

It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the develop - ment of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for.

«It's smaller plants that are using different technologies that are more agile and can shift from developing one medicine to another, it's the development of companion diagnostic technologies that will help identify the people that this particular drug will work best for,» he says, predicting that personalized medicine will create a «different dynamic in terms of how the industry is funded and how medicines are manufactured in the future.»

So far we have created a beautiful medicine garden to conserve plants used for women's health.

Chemists at times look to plants, sea life and other natural sources for the basic ingredients needed to develop the next breakthrough medicine.

Her father shared with her how Acomas used native plants in their homes and for medicine, but ultimately, because she was Indian, she lacked support and guidance at her high school.

And one of the fundamental plants used in Chinese medicine, Trichosanthes kirilowii, is now being investigated for its anti-HIV properties.

St. John's wort (Hypericum perforatum), a plant historically used to drive out evil spirits, is the most widely studied herbal medicine for depression.

I'm sure you could find an animal behaviorist to write an interesting article about how animals will take «medicines» when they are ill (i.e., how some animals will seek out particular plants to eat just for their medicinal value).

An Artemisia plant's anti-malarial compound, artemisinin, can get more concentrated as CO2 increases, possibly good news for plant - based medicine.

Native Americans cultivated sunflowers to use for food, medicine, and dye, says Lentz, and their breeding efforts produced tall, single - headed plants with big seeds that are rich in nutrients and easy to harvest.

For example, the best national pharmaceutical companies are starting to invest in the validation of plant - derived medicines in an attempt to lay claim to new medicines and compete with the conventional imported compounds, which make up over 70 % of the Brazilian market.

But residue analyses on pots found there may explain the mystery, as Peyronel and his colleagues described in a paper last year: The researchers found traces of wild plants often used for medicine, such as poppy for opium to dull pain, heliotrope to fight viral infections, and chamomile to reduce inflammation.

So yeah, you have to spend some more time doing interviews and asking exactly how it is used, how it is prepared, because often they are detoxifying the plants or they are making mixtures of the plants, so and not [that's] something that's really hard for western medicines to deal with.

So it can be more specifically the study of plants that people use for food, for clothing, for medicine, for construction, for ceremony, for decoration — any useful plant you might talk about and I've specifically focused on the medicinal plants and the edible plants and with my research on chocolate, I guess, the psychoactive plants too, you could say.

This project, Plant STEM for K - 12 Education, will incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) into activities that encourage children at eight public schools to learn more about plants» roles in ecosystems, their uses for medicine, materials and fuels.

iBET's infrastructure comprises 16 laboratories fully equipped with state - of - the - art technology (70 m2 each), including a BSL2 laboratory for working with viruses; a GMP Analytical Services Unit certified by the INFARMED (the Portuguese medicines authority, EMA Portuguese branch) and by DGAV (the Portuguese veterinary authority) for quality control and batch release of human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals as well as experimental new drugs; a GMP Mass - Spectroscopy Unit that provides state - of - the - art MS services to the scientific community and Industry; a 2600 m2 bio-pilot plant supporting production and purification of proteins ATMPs and vaccines from bench top to 300 L scale and privileged access to GeniBET Biopharmaceuticals, an iBET spin - off producing ATMPs under cGMP certification for phase I / II / III clinical trials.

In 2011, Kingston received a grant from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine, part of the National Institutes of Health, to test the plants for anti-malarial activity.

The government of Alberta and private funders have given C$ 25.2 million ($ 22.1 million) to two new research programs that will study genomics to discover new ways to use microbes in energy production and new uses for plants in medicine and in industry, Genome Alberta said today...

Besides its importance to plant biologists, this work will have implications for agricultural science, evolutionary biology, and molecular medicine.

Penn State College of Medicine researchers have shown, for the first time, a possible correlation between the partial meltdown of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station and thyroid cancers in the counties surrounding the plant.

The plant is related to mint, historically grows in India and has been used in traditional medicine for hundreds of years because of its overall health benefits.

As a functional medicine doctor, my goal is to search out the best way for my patients to use food as medicine to optimize their health, and as a tea obsessive, I have a particular penchant for the healing power of the plants in the tea kingdom.

Some of the major speakers included the very fit Mark Sisson, author of The Primal Blueprint (photo with me and Mark) and an advocate for the Paleo / Primal diet; the calming Paul Pitchford, author of Healing With Whole Foods and an expert in traditional Chinese Medicine; the dynamic and energetic David Wolfe (photo below right), an authority on raw foods nutrition and superfoods; and the inspirational John Robbins, advocate of a plant - based diet and the son of the Baskin - Robbins founder who cured his father's diabetes through a change in diet.

A healthy detox cuisine based on whole foods, plant based, anti-inflammatory and low glycemic is all about using food as medicine to achieve health goals immediately, as well as provide a foundation for vibrant, long - term health.»

To improve your everyday energy, try this tweak: Substitute plant protein for animal protein whenever possible, suggests Samantha Heller, RD, a nutritionist at the NYU School of Medicine.

«I think there are compelling benefits to whole food, plant - based diets, which is why I do recommend this type of diet for many patients,» says Shilpa Ravella, MD, gastroenterologist and assistant professor of medicine at Columbia University Medical Center.

Pro tip: Add some fresh ginger to the broth for some anti-nausea plant medicine.

A leafy green plant that grows in Southeast Asia, Holy Basil has been used for centuries in Indian medicine for treating a variety of aliments.

Plant medicine has been used for thousands of years and is the way of the future.